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A Lay Cistercian Looks at Spiritual Reality
Month: April 2018
THE RULE OF ST. BENEDICT: Chapter 4 MY WORST FAULT
Have you ever had a personality fault that just keeps digging at you and won’t go away?You pray that it will go away, you try to overcome it every time it pops up its ugly head. Nothing works. The monks have a chapter of… Continue Reading “THE RULE OF ST. BENEDICT: Chapter 4 MY WORST FAULT”
WHAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.
When doing Lectio Divina (Phil 2:5) a while back, some thoughts that came to mind when I thought about Christ emptying himself to become human, I thought about these other strange inconsistencies in my view of reality. Trying to seek God, at the core… Continue Reading “WHAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.”
THE CUP OF SALVATION
During one of my Lectio Divina (Phil 2:5) encounters, my thoughts wandered to the meaning of Jesus’ command: love one another as I have loved you. What can this mean? Does Jesus just come down to earth and abandon us to the perils of… Continue Reading “THE CUP OF SALVATION”
SEVEN CISTERCIAN MARTYRS OF ATLAS
The following information is from Wikipedia about the martyrdom of Seven Cistercian monks from the Monastery of Our Lady of Atlas, Algeria, I offer it as part of my Lecio Divina meditation last week as I prepared for the Resurrection. Martyrs of Atlas Died… Continue Reading “SEVEN CISTERCIAN MARTYRS OF ATLAS”
I ATE MEAT ON GOOD FRIDAY.
Are you crazy, you say? You ate meat on Good Friday, the one of two days (the other being Ash Wednesday) that you are asked to give up meat (abstinence) each year? The sign that you really follow the spirit of the law and… Continue Reading “I ATE MEAT ON GOOD FRIDAY.”
CAN YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?
There are six questions which I think everyone, every human, that is, should answer, if they are to prepare to live Forever. It is all about perspective and your perspective determines the world you create here and in the next world to come. Here… Continue Reading “CAN YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?”
WHAT IS REAL?
This might seem like an unlikely topic for Lectio Divina (Phil 2:5) but it happened so I will pass it on. I have had conversations in the past about spirituality and how it is not based on reality but on Faith and subjective belief.… Continue Reading “WHAT IS REAL?”
ACT YOUR NATURE!
In one of my more lively Lectio Divina meditations (Phil 2:5), the thought came to me to act my nature. What an out-in-left=field thought! Especially at this season of Holy Week 2018, what in the world could that mean? I have actually had this… Continue Reading “ACT YOUR NATURE!”
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